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Semi-literate bantu (pomf2.lain.la)
posted 1 year ago by CognitiveDissident5 on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +42Score on mirror )
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OppressorClass on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
I bet you think "illiterate" and "not literate" are also interchangeable.
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jack445566778899 on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
I do.

"Ill", the prefix, is "bad/sick". This includes all magnitudes, from a little to all the way bad.

The question i have is, why don't you think they are interchangeable?
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OppressorClass on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Well, retard, you're wrong. "Illiterate" means "unable to read", and "not literate" means that a person has not read enough of the right literature. Often there is a bit more context involved with the latter, such as, "Frank is not literate in [something]", but it can also be used without extra context, and is then usually more of a judgement of a person's level of well-read-ness.
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jack445566778899 on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
> Well, retard, you're wrong.

Spoken like a true intellectual.

> "Illiterate" means "unable to read", and "not literate" means that a person has not read enough of the right literature

Fascinating distinction. I don't see any reason for that to be the case semantically (and the definition of literate makes that clear), but i can appreciate that it is nonetheless colloquially true.

"Not literate" still **literally** means "not able to read", even if colloquially/idiomatically it has another connotation.
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